Links tagged “start-up”

politico.com

Almost 200 companies, among them Y Combinator and Proton, write to the administration against cutting off access to Chinese open-weight models.

weli.dev

A startup that kept promising features to close sales instead of fixing the product, and lost its flagship customer and its engineers.

uxplanet.org

Lessons from Launching and Growing a Freight Transportation Platform: insights from five years as the first full-time employee at a freight transportation company.

calv.info

Eight lessons from Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen on the early stage — setting goals, communicating with investors, launching, and holding focus.

briancasel.com

Personal site of Brian Casel, gathering a newsletter, a podcast and a blog on bootstrapping software businesses and productised services.

stackingthebricks.com

Articles, podcast episodes, videos and courses on shipping products and building a small profitable business.

angel.co

Sam Altman on why joining a fast-growing company is a good career bet, and how hypergrowth startups should approach hiring.

firstround.com

Looker founder Lloyd Tabb on trading vanity metrics for clarity metrics — the few numbers that actually predict customer behaviour.

yclist.com

Directory of Y Combinator-funded companies grouped by batch, each with a one-line description and its current status.

christophjanz.blogspot.com

Five routes to $100 million in annual revenue — elephants, deers, rabbits, mice and flies — sized by how many customers each price point requires.

christophjanz.blogspot.com

A blog of thoughts on internet start-ups, SaaS and early-stage investing, written by an angel investor turned seed fund partner.

stripe.com

Stripe's library of guides on the mechanics of running an internet business — incorporation, employee equity, taxes, fundraising, hiring and scaling.

medium.com

A list of forty-odd founder-related warning signs that venture capitalists watch for, collected from partners at firms including Benchmark and First Round.

themacro.com

Michael Seibel on treating PR like business development — generating actual news, building relationships with reporters, and timing an announcement.

a16z.com

Glossary of venture capital economics — limited partners, carried interest, the J-curve, clawbacks — and how a fund's returns get distributed.

blog.ladder.io

Five steps for validating a business idea — customer interviews, strategy mapping, landing pages and paid experiments — before leaving your job.

a16z.com

How startup equity works — cap tables, financing rounds, dilution and liquidation preferences — and what each does to the value of employee options.

firstround.com

Noah Weiss of Slack on designing and timing mobile push notifications so they stay useful instead of eroding user trust.

medium.com

Baremetrics introduces Open Benchmarks, anonymised SaaS metrics from over 600 companies grouped by average revenue per user.

pmarchive.com

Archive of Marc Andreessen's 2007 blog posts on startups, hiring and venture capital, maintained by Fictive Kin.